The Peak Woman is a masterpiece in The Book of Songs. This poem has only three verses and only 50 words in total, but it has extremely high aesthetic value. The reason why this poem has amazing charm is that it has successfully created a beautiful "quiet girl" image, and this beautiful figure image is completed through character description. In the practice after the textbook text, there is the training of "rewriting" Jing Nv into vernacular poems or short stories ". If we can understand the description of the characters in this poem, we will certainly be able to finish this exercise well.
The "quiet girl" in the poem is a beautiful image, but the author did not specifically write about her eyes, her figure and her skin, only said "quiet girl" and "quiet girl". Writing in such a general way should be a taboo in writing, but the characters in this poem are so cute, so vivid and so real. Why? The answer is that the technique of contour description has been successfully used.
If you really just write "a quiet girl and her sister" and "a quiet girl and her beauty", readers will naturally not be impressed, but the author wrote "a quiet girl and her beauty, as long as I am in the corner of the city" in the first section. Love without seeing, scratching your head. "I didn't write about women, but turned my pen to a young man. That's different. What should a girl who can make a young man anxious like this look like? This is what the author intends to worry the readers. Don't write about the girl directly, but about the guy waiting for her, in fact, it is about the beauty of the girl. This writing is profile description.
The second section is "a quiet girl is a good girl, and I take care of the baby." I'm embarrassed to say I'm beautiful. "Don't say the girl's beauty, write down the feelings of the young man to see Tong Guan. Tongguan is Tongguan, it is just a musical instrument, but now Tongguan in the hands of a young man is not a simple musical instrument. The young man fiddled with the bronze official piano in his hand. No matter how beautiful it looks, its color is beautiful and its luster is beautiful. Because it is a gift from a beautiful woman, it is so beautiful. This is the beauty of a person's sweetheart from the side.
The third section is "From grazing to grazing, the beauty is different." Prostitutes are beautiful and embarrassing. "I have a handful of grass in my hand, but it is extremely beautiful. Because my wife picked it from the suburbs, it is not beautiful, but because of that kind of beauty. Here, the author explains the reasons for the beauty of "management" and "fat".
The poem ends here, there is nothing more, but the reader is waiting. What is the beauty in the poem? Readers also scratch their heads. But the author, stop here and stop writing. Can you continue to write? Not so good. Here, poetry arouses the reader's emotions, and the following can completely let the reader imagine. That's what people do. The less you tell him something, the more he wants to know. If you tell him half, not the second half, that's the most urgent thing. And this is precisely the charm of literature: to put it thoroughly, it is redundant.
2. As for profile description, there is a classic example, which is the description of the beauty Helen in the ancient Greek epic Homer. The author did not directly write about how beautiful Helen was, but wrote about a group of old generals in the stands. When these old people saw Helen, they sighed: It is worthwhile to wage a war for such a beauty. In ancient Chinese poetry, there are also examples of successful description of characters, even surpassing the description in Homer's epic.
The most common mistake in rewriting "Jing Nv" into a vernacular poem or short story is to say everything that is not said in the poem and write the poem directly. Many students just write enough about girls' eyes and noses, which is not necessarily good. A good rewrite should be to try to make the young man look fleshier, how he was in a hurry, how he tossed and turned, touched and looked at the red pipe, how he sniffed and talked to himself on the grass ... After the young man finished writing, the girl was naturally fuller and cuter. Needless to say, people who read poetry will naturally imagine.
3. Zhao Shuli's novels draw more nutrition from classical literature, especially classical novels. For example, when writing a character, he describes the beauty of a girl, and often does not directly write how beautiful she is, but describes it from the side. The most typical example is the description of Qin Xiao in The Marriage of Little Black Boys.
Qin Xiao is eighteen years old, the frivolous people in the village said, much better than when her mother was young. Young boys, if you have something to do, you always want to have a word with Qin Xiao. Qin Xiao went to wash clothes, and young people went to wash them at once; Qin Xiao went to the tree to pick wild vegetables, and so did the young people.
When Sun Li writes about the beauty of a young woman, he sometimes describes it in profile, as in the case of Xiao Man in The Prequel to Tiemu.
Every time Little Man comes to the street to push the mill, it will cause a commotion in this small village. When she didn't have a chance to push the mill, she put down a broom and occupied it at the edge of the mill, walking all the way home, and some young people took this opportunity to come to the edge of the mill. More and more young people get together, which often makes the families that have been pushed down feel strange.
..... After a while, Xiaoman turned out of her sister's alley, and the young people's eyes turned to her together. Young people's eyes are varied, some are brave and some are timid, but they are all excited by their inner enthusiasm and fantasy, just like flames bursting out one after another.
Sun Li's description of Xiao Man is exactly the same as Zhao Shuli's description of Xiao Qin. It is not the latter's imitation of the former, but the description of characters in China's classical literature, especially classical novels, which has had an impact on them. For example, "Guan Yu killed Hua Xiong with warm wine" in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a side that people talk about. This description does not describe Guan Yu's superb martial arts, but how several generals were defeated by Hua Xiong. In this context, Guan Yu threw Hua Xiong's head on the ground and prepared hot wine for him when he disembarked. "The wine is still warm." Through such a negative description, Guan Yu's superb martial arts need not be written again.